You’ve probably been following the recent trend in advertising, with big brands picking up celebrity endorsements via Social Media, instead of through tired TV spots. Smaller brands, on the other hand, desperately turn to influencer marketplaces and Twitter to find bloggers and social media influencers, themselves desperate to review virtually anything they can get their hands on...

If you’ve ever taken the time to watch TV during a weekday afternoon, you’ve probably noticed a lot of the advertisements seem to target individuals who are easy to manipulate. Whether it’s an ad for pay day loans, ambulance chasers or in this case for-profit educational institutions, all the schemes are targeted at people who need the most help in life. But, are these institutions...

Yesterday, Judge Richard Leon released an order against the NSA forcing the agency to shut down its bulk telephone metadata collection program before the scheduled date of the 29th of November. Within his 43-page opinion Judge Leon noted that even though the program was already set to be shut down, he decided to end the program early, “because the loss of constitutional freedoms for even one day is a significant harm.” For years the...

This new draft legislation which seeks to ban ‘unbreakable’ encryption for the masses and track all their online habits puts people at risk, but not from the government, from each other. That’s actually the part of the story that the government don’t seem to understand at all – it’s not the police or the government that are the ‘enemy’ that ordinary folks are protecting themselves from...

Liberty Tabletop is the only remaining flatware manufacturer in the US, and rose from the ashes of the old Oneida facility in Sherrill, NY when they moved their operations overseas. With green credentials, and fair working conditions, they are still able to deliver affordable, beautiful products to consumers thanks to the internet – they can cut out the ‘middle men’. Before we get stuck into the Liberty story, which...

In yet another user-privacy scandal, Apple has stated that they have kicked out hundreds of apps from their app store after finding them in violation of the company’s privacy policy. More specifically, Apple found that hundreds of apps were found to harbor Chinese advertising software that was able to steal “personally identifiable user information” from its users. In their press release Apple stated that, “We’ve identified a group of...

Yesterday, Apple released its latest operating system, iOS 9. Most notably, the new Apple operating system boasts increased battery life that will benefit devices of all platforms. This is especially good news as Apple decided to reduce the battery capacity of both the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, stating that users can expect about an extra hour of charge on their phone while using iOS9. If the new battery improvements weren’t...

While scrolling through Twitter today I noticed an interesting tweet from Pete Meyers: Is this new? – “Book an appointment” option in Knowledge Panel (shown closed and open) — pic.twitter.com/j86njnVGyq — Dr. Pete Meyers (@dr_pete) August 24, 2015 Having not noticed this myself I decided to do a few quick Google queries to get the same type of results. Unfortunately, here in Minneapolis the new update hasn’t...